There are two objectives for this thesis: The first objective is the philological edition of handwritten letters and drafts from Chancellor Granvela's corpus by means of the application of a specific methodology for non-literary texts from the 16th century; the second objective is the edition of the letters about the women of the House of Austria, who were queens or spouses, so as to provide more prominence to women in history. In this case, to Mary Tudor, Queen of England. The project in which this researched in included, Las mujeres en la Casa de Austria 1526-1566, strives for this latter aim.
In the case of Queen Mary, it was necessary to start from her marriage to Philip II of Spain, promoted by Charles V. This matrimony was determining for the political and religious situation from her accession to the throne until her death.
The negotiation of this matrimony, her rejection of other European suitors and the lack of progeny were capital factors in the development of Mary's political action. This research tries to rebuild the process, the development and the outcomes of the failure of this alliance, this is, the terrible consequences for the Emperor Charles V, to the limit of his capacities, and the government of Queen Mary.
The selected period starts in 1553 and ends in 1555; the letters are in Spanish and Italian. This edition and its following study in depth allows us to know better all the facts related to the preparation of this marriage and Philip's voyage to conclude it.
Although the facts dealt with are widely known and have already been analyzed by well-known historians specialized in this period, the documents offer completely unpublished material full of details which reconstruct the sequence of events.
The vast majority of documents are part of Antonio Perrenot de Granvela's epistolary. In fact, almost all the documents are sent to him or by him, whereas other letters are sent to other personalities such as Philip II himself. All the edited documents come from Biblioteca del Palacio Real de Madrid and Biblioteca Nacional de España. Moreover, many other documents signed by the Emperor himself, his son and other dignitaries add to this corpus and come from Archivo General de Simancas.
These documents are well known by historians: many of them appear translated in the Calendar of State Papers, others come from more popular archives such as the ones in Viena or Brussels and have even been edited by scholars such as Gachard, Lanz, Weiss, Tytler, Rymer, etcetera. However, these transcriptions were carried out in the 19th century or beginning of the 20th century and the necessity for an in-depth revision is now evident.
The methodology which has been followed for the edition of the texts is a specific philological edition which follows faithfully the guidelines of the edition of texts which are unique, handwritten and unpublished. It comprises a recensio of the letters in the codices and bundles of documents in the libraries mentioned above. There is an in-situ study in two parts: first, a study devoted to locating the letters and drafts and then a study devoted to check the transcriptions made from afar and the study of the codices and bundles.
The part of the work which is carried out at a distance implied the location of the letters into a physical calendar to see their relationship. The following step was the transcription to be checked later on and finally the edition of the document with a regesto included.
Finally, the edition of letters and drafts comes with an introduction to Chancellor Granvela's correspondence, a study of the relaciones de sucesos or public reports of the time and a historical introduction to the situation of the Spanish Empire and its political administration as well as a study of the characters who are directly or indirectly related to the events which appear in the manuscripts.

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